General Ibrahim Badamasi
Babangida, IBB, former Military President, has urged Nigerians to be more
patriotic in 2018.
This is contained in his New Year
message made available to Nigerian Eye on Sunday.
He said the citizens should use
2018 to renew commitment to collective prosperity, growth and development by
contributing more to nation building and shun all forms of negative tendencies.
His message read: “I have the
hope that the nation we so sacrifice to keep going and to this age can only be
better notwithstanding various security and economic challenges that has become
a world order ; confronting every country of the world in different magnitude
and in different way.
As Nigerians our unique strengths
and characters to overcome our challenges collectively have never been in
doubt, what we need now more than ever is to galvanize these unique qualities
for the good of all as permissible under a democratic set up.
We must at this point imbibe the
core values of democracy by respecting each other’s rights and pursue
individual goals in tandem with our national objectives for a better Nigeria,
not better individuals that will not reflect on us all.
A season like new year often
offer us a new inspiration to give each other support , we should at this point
truly believe that we are great in our diversity , in it lies our strength and
uniqueness.
Rather than allowing our
diversity to divide us , we should gain courage by looking at the opportunities
offer by our diversity and the good aspects of it that make us special people
as Nigerians.
Believe me when I say from my
experience as a military officer who fought to keep Nigeria one; that we have
had difficult times to be where we are today and we will not wish our children
, grand children and great grand children to witness war again we have made the
sacrifice for them.
This does not however mean that
we will not be confronted with challenges, challenges are part of life, but if
we are to be prepared for it, we must first shed our fear of it.
I say to you compatriots today
and truthfully that I am unafraid to be optimistic that the future of Nigeria
is bright.
We are without doubt people with
a great past but not without challenges and for the future we will be greater
yet with challenges but we have paid our dues for Nigeria, to the extent that
we are hopeful that the challenges of the future will not be greater than what
we faced in the past
I urge all of us to take the
inspiration offer us by this new year to build Nigeria of our dream, devoid of
divisive tendencies and offer government at all levels our support, bearing in
mind that as humans we are fallible, perfection is a Godly attribute, no matter
how we try we can never be perfect
So as we enter the new year we
must learn to understand and forgive our honest mistakes, because there is no
person who has not made mistakes and has the guarantee not to make any in his
or her life, with that divine purposes of being capable of making mistakes we
should be able to reason with our leaders, decipher the complexity of our
diversity and move on as one great nation we all desire.”
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